After my session Techorama last week I have been asked some questions over how we built our TFS Lab Management infrastructure. Well here is a bit more detail, thanks to Rik for helping correcting what I had misremembered and providing much of the detail.

If you use TFS then it is well worth a look at Brian Harry’s Teched2014 session ‘Modern Application Lifecycle Management’. It goes through changes and new features with TFS both on-premise and in the cloud, including

• Migrating Your Data from TFS to Visual Studio Online with New Free Utility from OpsHub
• Authentication …

A very common question I am asked at clients is

“Is it possible for a parent TFS work item to be automatically be set to ‘done’ when all the child work items are ‘done’?”.

The answer is not out the box, there is no work item state roll up in TFS.

However it is possible via the API. I have modified my TFS Alerts DSL …

If you are using Webdeploy you might wish to alter the connection string the for the LocalSQLServer that is used by the ASP.NET provider for web part personalisation. The default is to use ASPNETDB.mdf in the APP_Data folder, but in a production system you could well want to use a ‘real’ SQL server.

If you look in your …

I have been using Release Management to update some of our internal deployment processes. This has included changing the way we roll out MSDeploy packages; I am following Colin Dembovsky’s excellent post of the subject.

I hit an interesting issue today. One of the configuration variable parameters I was passing into a …

My Nokia 820 phone is now updated to 8.1 with the developer preview.

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The actual upgrade was straight forward, the only issue …